Wednesday, 16 October 2013

The MOOC ended last week with Class 5. It will remain open until
the end of Sunday, 20 Oct (all time zones). Statements of Completion
will be emailed once the course closes. The course material will remain
available up indefinitely at:

We
are planning to re-run Data Mining with Weka early next year
(probably March). And your enthusiastic feedback has encouraged us to
think about a more advanced version. But it does depend on support from
Waikato University, and we are waiting until this course is over before
commencing that conversation.

In
the good old days, Weka was an externally funded research project. But
that ended long ago. Both Weka and this MOOC are supported entirely by
our Department and University. If you think these efforts are worthwhile
and would like to support them financially, that would be lovely!
Please do so here:

Monday, 7 October 2013

Class 5 broadens out to consider some more general issues. It's a short week, with just four topics:

5.1: The data mining process

5.2: Pitfalls and pratfalls

5.3: Data mining and ethics

5.4: Summary

The
post-course assessment opens on Wed Oct 9. Everything will remain open
for one further week, until Sunday Oct 20, when the course will be
closed.

We will also ask you to complete a survey for your opinions of the MOOC.

We
will probably run the course again, perhaps in late summer -- I mean NZ
summer! -- maybe in March 2014. And we are contemplating a follow-up MOOC
that covers topics we couldn't fit into this course. But our ability to
continue with MOOCs will depend on the success of this one, and the
number of people who complete it successfully will be a key metric. Thus
I once again urge you to do the assessments for my sake, if not your
own :-)

Please keep up the help on the course forum -- we greatly value your assistance.We'll soon put out a short (optional) video to discuss a few issues that have arisen in Class 4.